XP Chronicles

Well, it’s been one helluva run. I’m sure I”ll continue to write, some way some how. But it’s pretty clear the past year that my life is changed forever. I won’t be able to continue this blog the way I used to. My family grows and will definitely become even larger. The kids are growing up and finding interests of their own and before I knew it …time that was once mine is no longer. Took me a…

For #nbi2016, Write Your Worst Article:

This piece of advice was from the second NBI, but I think it’s really important so I’ve updated it here and I hope you find it helps you to publish more articles Bloggers, I want you to write an article that you feel isn’t your best, or isn’t good or isn’t pretty or isn’t coherent or is boring. Then I want you to publish it. As writers (and really, any creative person) we live in a culture where…

#NBI2016 prompt: Doone's Excellent Adventure

In response to NBI 2016 writing prompt for week 2: Your ideal game and all it’s glorious features. There was a time I would have described an MMO of some sort. I look back at some of the ideas I had about games and MMOs and what’s ideal and that’s changed quite a bit over just the past 3 years. There was a time I would have asked for something like a smart group finder, or total character…

NBI 2016 has arrived …now what?

Well it’s been a busy end of May trying to pull all the pieces together from last year. I wasn’t around so I really wanted to catch up to the new blogs, the events, just how the community responded last year. Also, sorry I’m writing this from my personal blog. I’m still trying to grab all of the split up pieces of the NBI site. And that’s part of what this post is about: What’s going on for NBI…

Of Swords and Daggers: The Lack of Penis in Games

Rust is the most recent “experiment” with the male body. It does something almost no movie, game or even comic book will do. It shows the penis in all it’s floppy glory. Unlike a penis, Facepunch didn’t shrink from putting it all out there. It’s so rare to see penis in games that in the early days of it’s testing players gleefully ran around with their wangs in the wind, recording countless…

NBI 2016 is a week away!!!! Discord: https://t.co/bZLA0YGZSk #nbi2016

I’m very scared. This came even faster than I thought. And I’m not prepared. But here we go :) So for the month of June, we’ll all be on the look out for newbie bloggers. But now is a good time to emphasize: we use the term “blogger” around her extremely loosely. The event could as well be called Newbie Author Initiative and be just as accurate. You don’t need to blog to be participate. You just…

NBI 2016: Coming in June

I’m probably the last person you expected to see around here announcing NBI, but here I am. Here’s some information about what you can expect so far: Round up: Each week during June I’ll post a round up of our newbie bloggers Twitter: When I get a link to a new blogger, I’ll be sure to retweet it out Communication: Twitter is truly the best, but we’ll add Discord to the list for gamers. If there…

Whaddya think: 7 Grand Steps on Female Domination

I told the whole story on Twitter. To sum up: 7 Grand Steps is like a board game. You start off as an individual back in the prehistoric days and your goal is to advance your family for generations to come. During one amazing age of progress my family climbed the social ladder and one of my daughters (family heirs) became minister. No man in the kingdom would marry her. One offered to kill…

Demons Souls to Dark Souls: Observing the evolution

I remember purchasing Demon’s Souls on some vague recommendations through various rumor mills. The common “it’s stupid hard” bit didn’t attract me. Difficulty does not make a game great or appealing for me.  What got me to buy the game was witnessing it’s dreary, beautiful art on it’s website. After seeing the site, I started reading small bits of lore from various sites and I stopped there. I…

Did you enjoy the story of #hyperlightdrifter? Checkout The Mysteries of Hyper Light Drifter:

I used to complain that I had more games in my library than I had time to play! And this is still true for many of us these days — I’m so saturated with games. 2015 turned out to be unintentionally good for me in that regard. I literally had no time for games so I bought just 1 game a month via IndieBox. Whatever time I found, I used it to try only those games and that’s how I came across Axiom…

How to Win a Fight with Your Lover #lovechronicles

I tell this story about a terrible argument I had with my now wife before we were married often. It’s always stuck in my memory as a sort of highlight in our relationship, not just because it was a terrible but very stupid fight (aren’t they all), but because I’ve never understood why this memory has meant so much to me until now. You must understand something only a few of you know about me: I…

If ever there was a time for gamers to rejoice in their romantic prospects, it is now! Well, it’s been for the past 3 years at least. Why? Because technology and the liberation of gender has allowed us to create applications which are pretty much games, but games which can deliver us 1 swipe closer to romantic encounters. I know Tinder doesnt’ really inspire images of lasting love, but it’s been…

New Sword Fighting Game! #loveandgaming

For mature audiences. I’d give a nudity warning but that seems like over promising. It is my hope that the male body can be freed from the confines of traditional masculinity, that we can be seen as equally worthy of video game footage as the many breasts we receive in our games. UNSHEATH THE DICKS IN VIDEO GAMES! Big and small! Chubby and slim! Crooked and straight! Young and old! May they…

Feminist Frequency’s 2015 Annual Report

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Love, Sex and Novelty #loveandgames

Recently, my wife and I got a new piece of furniture. I caught myself, not for the first time, happy about the prospects of having sex on it. This was really the only thing I found exciting about the new piece of furniture. Now I asked a few friends if it was just me who had these sorts of random, trivial ideas, but they mostly agreed they have the same sorts of thoughts. After pondering this for…

The Month of Love and History

As usual, February marks the beginning of the Month of Love! To kick it off, I thought I’d do a little reminiscing about the weeks and months I didn’t come to my keyboard to write a blog or even play a game in 2015. The short of it is LIFE. My newest baby turned 1 year old last month. He’s a beautiful, strange little one but he’s healthy and has already picked a favorite sibling, his big sister…

Indie Unbox: #Apotheon was only mildly the wait ...but awesome to look at

I’ve been a big fan of Alien Trap ever since they stole my heart with Capsized, a platformer that came about 5 years ago now. That game had suspense and a kind of cool intensity hidden beneath fairly serene (if weird) well-polished graphics and science fiction story. It’s exactly the kind of indie game that gives Indie a good name. Fast-forward to Apotheon, a game that I’ve been anticipating ever…